Acid/Base Chemistry

April 1-April 25thThis unit is the culmination of reactions, solutions, stoichiometry, and equilibrium concepts and applications. Students will learn that solutions are not neat and multiple reactions and equilibrium conditions contribute to the true nature of the solution. The problems are multi-stepped and require switching between stoichiometry of reactions and stoichiometry of equilibria. Recognizing the major species in solution is absolutely key to understanding what is happening in solution.Lesson Plan Chapter 14Lesson Plan Chapter 15Websites for Titrations

Chemical Kinetics

March 4th to March 15thStudents will relate rate of reactions to several factors, study rate laws, use experimental data to determine rate laws, determine a rate law experimentally, and witness the effect of a catalyst. Rates of reactions are very important to biological and geological processes. Lesson PlansWeb Pages

Chapter 6: Thermochemistry

January 16th - January 28thThis topic is COOL or hot . . . . Most physical and chemical changes involve significant changes in internal energy of substances. Many processes will gain or lose energy, sometimes as heat. Student's will learn to apply Hess's Law to determine the energy change of a reaction without doing any measurements. This unit along with the Gas Law unit is helpful in understanding weather. Kinetic Molecular Theory will be expanded to explain the transfer of heat from a hot object to a cooler one. Lesson PlansPowerPoint SlidesHess's Law Links to Websites Intro to ThermochemWilliam Rankin Story

predicting products of reactions

December 17 - December 21Students will learn how to determine the products of various types of reactions.Lesson PlansPowerPoint

REACTIONS IN SOLUTION

November 30th to December 14thThe chemistry of solutions is very important to life, the Earth, and industry. There are an untold number of different reactions that occur in solutions. It is essential to understand the nature of all reactions but especially those that occur in aqueous solutions. If you can master aqueous reactions, you can master any type of reaction. Lesson PlansStudy Guide to Chapter 4Links to Balancing Redox Equations

Hybrid Orbitals and Molecular Orbital Theory

October 17th to October 29thThis unit continues to explain molecular geometry by using new models from atomic orbitals that participate in covalent bonding. The energy of the shared electrons changes and the possible locations also change as electrons are attracted to two nuclei instead of one. Two models are presented in Chapter 9 - Hybridization of atomic orbitals which uses the LE model and a newer model called Molecular Orbital theory which was developed using the same concepts and similar mathematical considerations as Schrodinger's wave equation. Click on the following to open the documents or websitesLesson Plans and Homework Assignments WebsitesHybridzation of Atomic OrbitalsSigma and Pi Bonds AnimationMolecular Orbital Theory

Modern Atomic Theory

Sept 14th - Sept 21stIn this unit we will review the experiments that lead to the development of atomic theory. Orbital diagrams and electron configuration as well as quantum numbers will be discussed. Periodicitiy will be the next unit.Lesson PlansHomeworkPowerPoint #1PowerPoint #2PowerPoint #3

Nuclear Chemistry

Sept 10 - 14thWe will start from the inside and work our way outward. This unit will include the importance of the nucleus in the grand scheme of things, why nuclei decay, how they decay, and what happens when they decay. We will discuss the experiments that support the current know model of the nucleus. It will be quick and mostly review.Nuclear HW Lesson PlansNuclear PowerPoint